"Oh God, please tell Sharon to end the curfew by this Saturday so I can go to school." This is how mysecular, eight year old daughter, Areen, has put herself to sleep for the last two weeks. Areen, like so manyothers here, have turned to the divine powers to intervene in ending the five-month Israeli military curfewthat is imposed on Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank. As post 9-11 globaldiplomacy patiently deliberates about how to proceed after the failure of the Oslo Peace Accords, Israel issystematically destroying Palestinian livelihood, and with it, any hopes for a future reconciliation betweenthe two peoples.